Lad already has that 20+ years of experience.

Stand down? You’re not my CO Michael and you’re welcome to run a URSF on your node, that is, if you even run a node. View quoted note →

@Knut Svanholm ∞/21M If as you more or less say, that Bitcoin can only change for the better, then what was Taproot?

I listened to this and, even as an anti-Zionist, I really did not like it. Cooper whitewashed the US military, completely omitting Vietnam and Korea. ~2-3M dead in Korea btw. It felt like an ad for divine, US Christian militarism. Moderate fan of Cooper otherwise for years, but his statism has been showing, as Bob Murphy has frequently been calling out lately. Even Scott *finally* pushed back hard on Cooper’s statism a few weeks ago on Provoked. I watched Tucker and Darryl with great suspicion for the last year or two. Their motives might not be so pure. Darryl former DoD guy and Tucker, well… View quoted note →

Pending some (positive) fundamental breakthrough in computer science, we already know that a significant percent of the population will have to use some degree of custodian, but that isn’t a death sentence. All we need is some threshold percent of Bitcoin being used as both SoV and MoE, such that it initiates a doom loop for the State’s monopoly over money production and taxation. I think we’re still on track for that outcome.

GM. Have you ever met a *happily* married woman who is in favor of mass migration?

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Yes, guardians of neutrality so anyone can pay once to permanently store any kind of file on 100k other hard drives forever. Muh fReE mArKet, otherwise it’s cEnSoRsHiP. Protocol rules are about neither purity (what a deceitful, implied pejorative btw) nor neutrality. Rules simply serve the design goal, in this case, a money protocol. View quoted note →

1,000+ year institution would also need to prove its ability to repair itself. View quoted note →

Where were the ossificationists during Taproot activation? Oh, so you just-so-happen to *now* believe in ossification. Riiiiiight.

For any GOT fans

Wait until everyone remembers about the ever-looming Dark Skippy. Sweet dreams.

Imagine how much more paper Bitcoin they will be able to create now.

How to verify there’s nothing fishy with the xpub? View quoted note →

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Good god why